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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Neurosis. No longer used in psychiatric diagnosis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Mental disease without recognizable anatomical lesion, and without evidence and history of preceding chronic mental degeneration.
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- noun dated
neurosis
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction
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Examples
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Technically the term psychoneurosis refers to a distinctive, although mild, type of patterned behavioral deviation.
Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986
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A discharge for psychoneurosis was the common result of such missives.
Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008
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But psychoneurosis is the product of the patient, however much he needs and utilizes his brain to bring it about, while the musical impingement that visited me followed a physical event, an external interference with the blood supply to my brain.
Dr. Leo Rangell: Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border; Part 2 2008
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Only those suffering from a severe case of psychoneurosis could believe this or write this for that matter...
From On High 2007
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But psychoneurosis is the product of the patient, however much he needs and utilizes his brain to bring it about, while the musical impingement that visited me followed a physical event, an external interference with the blood supply to my brain.
Dr. Leo Rangell: Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border; Part 2 2006
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Coriat, a Boston physician who concluded that stuttering was a severe psychoneurosis caused by the “persistence into adult life of infantile nursing activities.”
Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995
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Coriat, a Boston physician who concluded that stuttering was a severe psychoneurosis caused by the “persistence into adult life of infantile nursing activities.”
Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995
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The presence of an emotional disturbance caused by internalized conflict, rather than by environmental stress and deprivation, is the key to a diagnosis of psychoneurosis.
Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986
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Finally, on February 1, in the dusk of a late winter afternoon, she was admitted to Doctors Hospital for the treatment of psychoneurosis.
Portrait of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1986
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He emphasized the increasing incidence of occupational psychoneurosis among the engineers and the grave danger to everyone near the bomb even under the orthodox theory.
The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967
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